Whistleblower alleges that White House officials took extraordinary steps to 'lock down' information about Trump's phone call with Ukraine’s president
In the days following the phone call between President Trump and Ukraine's new president, senior White House officials intervened to"lock down" all records of the call, according to a declassified whistleblower complaint.
"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple US officials that senior White House officials had intervened to 'lock down' all the records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the White House situation room," the complaint says.
On his Twitter account, Trump insisted the entire controversy is political: "The Democrats are trying to destroy the Republican Party and all that it stands for. Stick together, play their game and fight hard Republicans. Our country is at stake." His tweet was in all capital letters. Maguire said he was unfamiliar with any other whistleblower complaint in American history that "touched on such complicated and sensitive issues." He praised the whistleblower as having acted honourably, said he recognised the complaint as immediately sensitive and important and insisted the White House did not direct him to withhold it from Congress.
"If this was all so innocent," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said in reaction, "why did so many officials in the White House, in the Justice Department and elsewhere make such large efforts to prevent it from being made public?"
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